Action Comics 1

If you're the kind of person who keeps up with news about people spending truly massive amounts of money on comic books, then you're probably aware that there was a copy of Action Comics #1 rated at 9.0 that sold for $3,000,000 earlier this year. On one level, that makes sense. It is, afte…

An eBay auction for a so-called "pristine" copy of 1938's Action Comics #1 -- the 1938 issue in which Superman made his very first appearance -- ended Sunday afternoon, and the winning bidder snagged the issue for a cool $3.2 million. That's the most anyone has ever paid for a c…

Nicolas Cage has starred in two Ghost Rider movies, co-starred in Kick-Ass, provided voice work for the CG animated Astro Boy and was attached to play the lead in an ill-fated '90s Superman film. The next Nicolas Cage comic book movie won't be like any of the above, however -- in fact, Cag…

Less than a week after Superman's first appearance in "Action Comics" #1 sold at auction for a record-setting $1,000,000, Bleeding Cool is reporting that "Detective Comics" #27, the first appearance of Batman, has shattered that record with a Bruce Wayne-sized $1,075,000 price ta…